The past two years have not been happy ones for the arts sector in Australia. It all began in early 2014 with federal Ministers Brandis and Turnbull telling artists at the Sydney Biennale that they were…

The BCA was probably doomed the moment Tony Abbott announced its creation out of Australia Council funds.
Nastya ShershnevaDecember 15, 2015

How can common standards apply to a sector with so much difference? Artists must take the opportunity to sharpen their minds as well as their rhetoric. The implications of the NPEA go beyond the polemical.

Making a splash in letters may be harder under changes to Australian arts funding.
Orange County Archives FollowJuly 20, 2015

It's hard to work out how funding for literature – if at all – fits into the draft guidelines of the new National Program for Excellence in the Arts. So what are the politics, and problems, at play?

Escape From Woomera is renowned as one of the forebears of “serious games” – what chance would it stand under new government funding guidelines?
By Escape from Woomera development team, via Wikimedia CommonsJuly 7, 2015

In cultural policy every good idea becomes a bad one if the context is confused. The fact there wasn’t initial clarity around the Program for Excellence indicates it will probably do more harm than good.

Arts organisations will be supported if they can contribute to a ‘confident, outward-focused arts sector’.
AAP Image/Paul MillerJuly 2, 2015

A motion in favour of a Senate Inquiry into the establishment of a National Programme for Excellence in the Arts has been passed. What more can be done by those artists and arts organisations lobbying against unpopular changes to arts funding?

The ambivalence which with artists have viewed the Australia Council needs to be put aside.
Alvaro TapiaJune 2, 2015

What is the premise of recently-announced cuts to Australia Council funding, and the establishment of a National Programme for Excellence in the Arts? There is actually a considerable evidence base from which to form policy decisions in Australian arts funding.